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How To Be A Nerd (or 20 minutes in the life of one)
Use cool techniques to produce a super-dull and boring video
UPDATE: See a less boring video made with the same "kitchen timer" technique here: www.flickr.com/photos/31273322@N03/3357205801/ )
This is a demonstration of the timelapse capabilities of the "ultra intervalometer" script for CHDK, as well as a cheap way to make panning timelapses with tiny cameras. CHDK is a "hack" for Canon compact digital cameras that use the Digic II or Digic III processor.
You can read about it/download it here: chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
and here: chdk.setepontos.com/
CHDK also lets you run scripts on your camera, and you could write your own scripts if you knew how (I sure don't).
Anyway it's super cool, it allows you to shoot RAW, and (as you will see in this video) gives you the possibility of an infinitely adjustable interval timer (I used a script called "ultra Intervalometer). The result is (potentially) much higher quality than the "time lapse video" mode on some of the newer IXUS cameras (although you still have to make the photos into a video yourself).
The first clip you'll see is a video clip I shot at the 640x424 3:2 setting on my Nikon D90 (sped up 5x). The following clips are the time lapse as recorded by the little Canon SD400 (around 140 JPGs taken at ten second intervals for around 20 minutes). I used a free software called JPGVideo to make them into a video clip at 15 frames per second. I had to size them down to VGA first, because JPG video requires more power than my computer has to make the video from the full sized files (though it will do it if you have the RAM apparently).
And I know, this video is extrememly dull, it's for demostration purposes only, a cheap way to make panning timelapses, so I recorded the dullest possible subject matter and din't do any PP to the frames of the timelapse before putting it together. I used a 60-minute kitchen timer with tripod parts glued to it to pan the little ELPH camera. The interval between shots was 10 seconds. The kitchen timer only goes in one direction and at one speed, but you can control the speed of the pan a little by shooting at different intervals or using different frame rates to put the video together (this wii of course also affect the length of your video).
I thought I'd share the technique, it's pretty fun, but this might be my last time doing it with the kitchen timer, as I've got a new "motion control" system on the way now (the "Milapse" telescope head and controller, see Milapse at www.youtube.com/milapse
Really Milapse's Youtube videos are what originally inspired me to make timelapse videos.
This spring/summer I'll be making really high quality timelapses (panning and otherwise) with the D90 and outputting them as HD. It's possible to output almost up to 4K size with the D90's photos, but my computer just doesn't have the juice :-(
(Who's going to be able to watch anything at 4k anyway? I still wish I could do it haha)
The music is a song called "Sanyan Sunrise (It Could Be Me)" by Dan S.
I found it on CCmixter and it's apparently free to use on a CC license.
You can listen to it or downoad it here: ccmixter.org/files/axisone/13710
Also if you're interested (and poor) there's a group on flickr all about cheapskate camera "hacking" here: PoorManHacks
Are there enough links for ya?
Video COPYRIGHT 2008/2009 Django Malone
How To Be A Nerd (or 20 minutes in the life of one)
Use cool techniques to produce a super-dull and boring video
UPDATE: See a less boring video made with the same "kitchen timer" technique here: www.flickr.com/photos/31273322@N03/3357205801/ )
This is a demonstration of the timelapse capabilities of the "ultra intervalometer" script for CHDK, as well as a cheap way to make panning timelapses with tiny cameras. CHDK is a "hack" for Canon compact digital cameras that use the Digic II or Digic III processor.
You can read about it/download it here: chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
and here: chdk.setepontos.com/
CHDK also lets you run scripts on your camera, and you could write your own scripts if you knew how (I sure don't).
Anyway it's super cool, it allows you to shoot RAW, and (as you will see in this video) gives you the possibility of an infinitely adjustable interval timer (I used a script called "ultra Intervalometer). The result is (potentially) much higher quality than the "time lapse video" mode on some of the newer IXUS cameras (although you still have to make the photos into a video yourself).
The first clip you'll see is a video clip I shot at the 640x424 3:2 setting on my Nikon D90 (sped up 5x). The following clips are the time lapse as recorded by the little Canon SD400 (around 140 JPGs taken at ten second intervals for around 20 minutes). I used a free software called JPGVideo to make them into a video clip at 15 frames per second. I had to size them down to VGA first, because JPG video requires more power than my computer has to make the video from the full sized files (though it will do it if you have the RAM apparently).
And I know, this video is extrememly dull, it's for demostration purposes only, a cheap way to make panning timelapses, so I recorded the dullest possible subject matter and din't do any PP to the frames of the timelapse before putting it together. I used a 60-minute kitchen timer with tripod parts glued to it to pan the little ELPH camera. The interval between shots was 10 seconds. The kitchen timer only goes in one direction and at one speed, but you can control the speed of the pan a little by shooting at different intervals or using different frame rates to put the video together (this wii of course also affect the length of your video).
I thought I'd share the technique, it's pretty fun, but this might be my last time doing it with the kitchen timer, as I've got a new "motion control" system on the way now (the "Milapse" telescope head and controller, see Milapse at www.youtube.com/milapse
Really Milapse's Youtube videos are what originally inspired me to make timelapse videos.
This spring/summer I'll be making really high quality timelapses (panning and otherwise) with the D90 and outputting them as HD. It's possible to output almost up to 4K size with the D90's photos, but my computer just doesn't have the juice :-(
(Who's going to be able to watch anything at 4k anyway? I still wish I could do it haha)
The music is a song called "Sanyan Sunrise (It Could Be Me)" by Dan S.
I found it on CCmixter and it's apparently free to use on a CC license.
You can listen to it or downoad it here: ccmixter.org/files/axisone/13710
Also if you're interested (and poor) there's a group on flickr all about cheapskate camera "hacking" here: PoorManHacks
Are there enough links for ya?
Video COPYRIGHT 2008/2009 Django Malone